Commentary

Hope that 2013 will result in strengthening the resolution of the use of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund probably will be dashed early in the 113th Congress.

When Congress passed MAP-21 last summer, the legislation offered a much-needed commitment to transportation infrastructure funding for the next two years.

As if planning and managing a seamless supply chain weren’t tough enough, a group of gremlins put their heads together last year to find more fiendish ways to bedevil logisticians.

Although some may argue that there is gradual stability in the transportation and logistics market, I remain only cautiously optimistic and contend there is still a great deal of uncertainty and unforeseen hurdles in our future.

2013 has arrived, but you may not have fully adjusted to the turning of the calendar. Some of you are just coming to accept that the world didn’t end on Dec. 21; others are still breathing sighs of relief that U.S. waterfront labor is still at work, although no one knows how long this will last.

Railroads are no strangers to operational efficiencies or being on the leading edge of new technologies.